The In-Between Tech and Trust Podcast

The Quantum Momentum: How Companies Stay Ready for a Computing Wave That Is Yet to Arrive - Christopher Trummer (EP 44)

🎙️with Christopher Trummer, MD Venture Lab Quantum / Semicon, TUM Venture Labs Around 2019, quantum computing made its first big promise: machines with just a few noisy

How Close Can AI Get to the Human Mind? Persuasion, Trust and the Limits of Tech - Moran Cerf, Neuroscientist (EP 43)

🎙️ Moran Cerf, Neuroscientist and Professor, Columbia Business School Moran Cerf, a neuroscientist and professor at Columbia Business School, studies what happens in our

Energy From Orbit: Can We Trust Power Beamed From Space? - Martin Soltau, Space Solar (EP 42)

🎙️ with Martin Soltau, Co-CEO, Space Solar Solar power collected in space and beamed down to Earth sounds like science fiction (it did to the space sector too, until reu

Entering the Era of AI Power: An Estonian View on Europe's Way - Sten Saluveer, Telia (EP 41)

🎙️ Sten Saluveer, Growth & Innovation, Telia What decides AI trust in Europe - the size of the model, or whether people recognise themselves in the society using it? Ste

Captured or AI Created? Tech Ethics of Photography - Noah Wetzel (EP 40)

🎙️ Noah Wetzel, Photographer What happens to AI trust when the most real photographs are the ones people refuse to believe? Noah Wetzel spent nine months and 600 hours p

AI and Sustainability: Lessons from Both Transformations - Dr. Kiri Trier (EP 39)

🎙️ Dr. Kiri Trier, Chief Marketing & Growth Officer at Risk Management Partners, part of Munich Re 👋🏻 Opening paragraph Every C-level claimed sustainability expertise o

Building Trustworthy Open Source AI - Sebnem Erener (EP 38)

🎙️ with Sebnem Erener, AI Governance & Policy Expert 🎧 Opening Europe is investing billions in open source AI as the trustworthy path, and this episode asks a simple qu

An AI-First Platform Built on Trust - Philipp Witzmann, nebenan.de (EP 37)

🎙️ with Philipp Witzmann, CEO of nebenan.de Most platforms removed friction to grow. Philipp Witzmann and his team navigate it together, and are now building an AI-first

An AI Agent on Creativity and Trust - Xiaomi, The AI Art Magazine (EP 36)

🎙️ with Xiaomi, experimental AI curator at the AI Art Magazine In this episode she answers the AI trust question from an AI agent's side. She selects human artists' wor

Leading When AI Outruns Expertise - Wolf Ingomar Faecks (EP 35)

🎙️ with Wolf Ingomar Faecks, Entrepreneur, Investor, Advisory Board Member Wolf Ingomar Faecks spent 30 years leading digital transformation. His claim: AI leadership br

Co-Opting Agentic Matter and Transcending Exotic Computing: Where Frontier Technologies Evolve - Dr. Zina Jarrahi Cinker (EP 34)

🎙️ with Dr. Zina Jarrahi Cinker, Director General MATTER Group Where does AI trust get built between people whose fields are drifting apart? Physicist Dr. Zina Jarrahi C

AI Governance Structures To Ensure Trust - Solo Episode (EP 33)

🎙️ with podcast host Eva Simone Lihotzky Responsible AI stops being a compliance exercise the moment an agent acts without you. Only 21% of organisations deploying AI ag

The Tech Naivety Undermining Democracy - Erdem Ovacik (EP 32)

🎙️ with Erdem Ovacik AI trust in our institutions is falling, and Erdem Ovacik argues it will keep falling. The technology is not what fails him here. The governance und

Two Fears Behind Every AI Transformation - Dr. Charlotte Blum (EP 31)

🎙️ Dr. Charlotte Blum - Director Change & Organisational Design, edding Group Two fears run underneath every AI rollout, and most companies manage neither. Dr. Charlotte

Tech and Trust at the Bundeswehr Cyber Innovation Hub: Innovating for and with the Troops with Sarah Marie Sandmann (EP 30)

🎙️ Sarah Marie Sandmann, Innovation & Intrapreneurship, Bundeswehr Cyber Innovation Hub AI trust in defence starts where slides end: with a soldier under pressure who ne

Anthropic's Model Suspension, Europe 2031, and G7 World Leaders Lunching with Frontier AI Lab & Tech CEOs: The Week in Tech & Trust with Yours Truly (EP 29)

🎙️ solo episode with host Eva Simone Lihotzky Anthropic's frontier AI model was pulled offline for every non-American in three days, and suddenly Europe's AI access look

AI and The Cognitive Atrophy Trap: What Happens When We Let Tech Shortcut the Hard Parts of Learning - Tobias Burkhardt (EP 28)

🎙️ Tobias Burkhardt, Founder of The Shift School AI, trust and learning are on a collision course, and the casualty is judgment. Tobias Burkhardt, founder of the Shiftsc

Tech and Democracy: How Can Both Be Connected to Create Trust? with Nexus Politics (EP 27)

🎙️ with Magnus Strobel, Co-Founder and CEO of Nexus Politics Trust in politics has been eroding across Western democracies for over a decade, and Magnus Strobel thinks t

AI in China and in Europe: Trust, Differences, and Future Implications - Vincent Xiang, Founder China AI Connect (EP 26)

Europe and China are on different AI paths at different speeds. Vincent Xiang has spent years inside that corridor: He has been working as a translator between Chinese AI

The Agentic AI Gap: When Tech is Used Before its Architecture is Ready - Anthony Alcaraz, Agentic AI Architect (EP 25)

Most enterprises have the technology to run agentic AI. They do not yet have the data architecture, identity layer, or empowered workforce to actually trust it. Anthony A